By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

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.

It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.

Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!

Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.