Mark Twain

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

There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words – 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.