Mark Twain

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race – the individual’s distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety’s or comfort’s sake, to stand well in his neighbor’s eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Happiness ain’t a thing in itself -it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain’t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

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.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.