Mark Twain

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Chaos is a friend of mine.