Mark Twain

"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

"There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; alwa…"

"The bicycle had what is called the 'wabbles', and had them very badly. In order to keep my position, a good many things were required of me, and in every instance the thing required was against nature…"

"No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time."