All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

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.

This is like coming back to earth from another world. It is like a dream too.

Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

I never like to think of anything from an ending point.

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.