A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. – Mark Twain
A man can seldom — very, very, seldom — fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. – Mark Twain
Why shouldnt truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. – Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer