"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Good Tags: books, friends More From Mark Twain "Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation." "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." More In Good "There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."― Thomas W. Higginson "But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you."― Deepak Chopra "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."― George Eliot