Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

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.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

A film is a machine made of images

Everytime the leaves are changing it's the loneliest time of the year

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.