Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.