Mark Twain

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

All you need to be a success is ignorance and self confidence.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Security will produce danger.

It is natural to die as to be born.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.