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

Contentment is the only real wealth.

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.

During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.