Mark Twain

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

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.

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

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only – not from its privileged classes.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

There’s no limit to the things you can do.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

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

If gold rust what shall the iron do?