It is piracy, not overt online music store, which is our main competitor.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Fools buy houses—the wise live in them.

Bliss is ultimate glory on a spiritual plane.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. 

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.