"It isn't safe to sit in judgment..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”

“Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.”

“It is a sin to judge any man by his post”

“They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.”

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.”

“The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.”