Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

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.

Our audacity must be rooted in our humility.

If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer.

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best only after they have been properly mellowed.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.