Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

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 someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.

Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you, but rather what YOU can do for your Joe Montaperto.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.