For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

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

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

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

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.

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

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.