"Life does not consist mainly -..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”

“The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

“Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.”

“Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.”

“A life worth living is a life worth recording.”

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”

“If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?”