In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

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.

Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.The former grows silently to let you live.The later grows you silently to 'live

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.