Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

Maybe it doesn't seem like anyone ever watches or appreciates you. Maybe no one on earth understands you. But your King is always watching you. Do it all for Him.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.