The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

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.

It's hard to be a No. 1 when you're not even No. 1 on your team.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

I'm a pollster by trade, so I'm into things that are actually quantifiable.

Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!

This is not your father's marketing. Instead of "do it right no matter what", search marketing demands that you "do it wrong quickly and then fix it".

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

My power will be in humility.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.