It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

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.

You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Each project changes you a bit.

Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.