I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

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.

To get an effective product, you need to find your calling

To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived."

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.

Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.