It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

What you have stolen can never be yours.

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Wrote you a poem or two. You didn’t enjoy them, but I did for you.

Sometimes you have to give something up to get something better.

Such things happen.

God bless us everyoneWe're a broken people living under loaded gunAnd it can't be outfoghtIt can't be outdoneIt can't out matchedIt can't be outrunNo

Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.