A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

What you have stolen can never be yours.

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.

Sometimes you just have to get out there and just help somebody face to face.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.