Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

What you have stolen can never be yours.

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

Determination in spite of the challenge makes us stronger.

England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.