Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

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.

Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

If we fail to forgive, we’re rejecting our own faith.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.