'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.

'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 do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Life is not measured by its length but by its contents.

There’s a moment in everybody’s life when you’re hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes

I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!

The future is wider than vision and has no end.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.