I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

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.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

...people live longer when they decide to become passionately involved in something beyond themselves.

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

The big yellow one is the sun!

Multimillionaires cannot pay lower rates than their secretaries and other people working for them.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.