"Always obey your parents - when they..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.”

“Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.”

“Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.”

“Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.”

“I never expect a soldier to think.”

“It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.”

“As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'”

“I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.”

“The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.”