God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

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.

A bird must have faith in its wings in order to fly.

Vivi held up the front page of the New York Times, pointing out the headline: 'The Grinch Who Killed Christmas.'"Way to go, Grinch,

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

I think if I had been a man, I would be richer. That hurts. But at the same time, I have to keep fighting and not think too much about "what if," because that doesn't lead you anywhere.

Meet customers where they are; question how to make the tools customers use more valuable.

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.