I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billio... - Mark Twain

"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."

"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."