Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
Mark TwainThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainIt is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Mark TwainSome civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
Mark TwainWhen your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
Mark TwainGeniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.
Mark Twain