"He could charm an audience an hour..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”

“When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.”

“He is now rising from affluence to poverty.”

“In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.”

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”

“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”

“They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.”

“I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.”

“When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.”