“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know;…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was still saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’.”— Abdul Sattar Edhi, facebook.com
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“If you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com