Mark Twain

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.