"I said nothing of the sort...." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”

“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”

“We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms.”

“If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.”

“I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.”

“Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?”

“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.”