Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

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.

I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.