Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.