"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."
- Mark Twain
"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"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."
"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."
"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."