If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

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.

Be a candle of light in someone’s life this holy season.

I no longer know who I am, as I refuse to remember who I was.

Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

Think street, train sport.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

I'd rather die than fade away

An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.