Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Energy doesn’t lie so trust those vibes you’re getting.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

I am the flame, electric blue, lightening, razor-like, renewing my spirit. Heart beating in time to the earth’s rhythm and expanse of black ink sky, overreaching eternal. My fingertips spark with seeds of creation, fireworks coloring canvas, beckoned by this light that lifts me.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.