Words are for those with promises to keep.

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.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.