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.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

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

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.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.

That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

I'm higher than I expected.