Words have no word for words that are not true.

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.

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Silence is the garden of thought.

If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.