[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something!

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.