Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.

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.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.