I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

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.

The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad.And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.