"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.” Mark Twain
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” Mark Twain
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” Mark Twain
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
“But such is human life. Here today and gone tomorrow. A dream — a shadow — a ripple on the water — a thing for invisible gods to sport with for a season and then toss idly by — idly by. It is rough.” Mark Twain, “Closed Out” sketch, included in San Francisco letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1/28/1866
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
