The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

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'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.

The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

I never want anyone to have a bad evening because I caused it.

Unpaid work never commands respect.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.