'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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.

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.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

God has work for you to do.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.