Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Sometimes “Good bye” is just another way of saying “I love you

That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.