"I was a-trembling, because I'd got to..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.”

“You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.”

“There is no such thing as an ordinary life.”

“Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.”

“Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.”

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.”

“If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.”

“No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.”

“I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.”