For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

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.

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.

Are you willing to forgo your salvation for a cause which seems righteous?

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

Everyday Leo Messi surprises us with something different.

In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

I'm constantly learning and evolving. I'm fascinated with life.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.