"Most of the things I worried about..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.”

“Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.”

“Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.”

“I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.”

“If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.”

“Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”

“When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.”

“Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.”