Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

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.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love

Dreams keep the heart alive.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

Some things are hard to let go of.