Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

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.

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.

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

[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.

Sometimes we are so upset about our meaningless worries that we keep losing focus of the goal all the time

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.