Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.

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.

He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . that tartness was part of the allure all along.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.