More quotes by Mark Twain

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."