My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

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.

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 like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

The better I get, the more I realize how much better I can get.