Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.