Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.

I Travel a lot

If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Everyone has their challenges.