Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!

That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.