In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today.

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.

Can the sarcasm, ' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Could there be anything more sad and more lonely than remembering what terrible things the future will bring?

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.