Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume will become what you consume

All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.

I'm not somebody who believes in evil.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.