Mark Twain Carpe Diem Quotations

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.