We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
