Contentment is the only real wealth.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

The student asked the master, “Teacher, what should I do to become great?”the master replied:Succeed where others have failed.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.

The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.