It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

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.

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily

Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.

Real compassion only exists in silence

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.