Alfred Nobel

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

“It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.”

“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions.”

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

“Contentment is the only real wealth.”

“For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell.”

“The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations will recoil from war.”

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

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

“I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose, and am a super-idealist.”

“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”

“Justice is to be found only in imagination.”

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

“Worry is the stomach's worst poison.”