Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

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

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Now I’m a warrior.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.