The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

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.

What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?

Some people feed you with love.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!