For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

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.

Concerning the popularity of vampire books:I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality. Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.