To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

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.

The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

Hope is such an important component to moving forward and getting past the difficult times.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.