All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

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 the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

It feels great to know that whatever you need to achieve your dreams are in you. Whatever the spider needs to make a cobweb is not in the housefly. Look to yourself

Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?""He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.

Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

The Devil invented gambling.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.