About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.You know why? I didn't want to, but he sent me his book with his autograph.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.