If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

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.

Make your own luck, and then share it with others.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

Remind yourself that problems come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

Sleep is underrated. Sleep!

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.