We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives, compared with authentic martyrs, of no account.

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.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.