Wybrane refleksje Marka Twaina (1835-1910), amerykańskiego dziennikarza, podróżnika i znanego pisarza, twórcy postaci Hucka Finna i Tomka Sawyera.

• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

• The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. 

• Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. 

• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. 

• When in doubt, tell the truth. 

• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. 

• When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. 

• Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. 

• Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. 

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.