Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Being gifted needs courage.

You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one sense, the easier it is to be "brave."

I am not faithful but I am attached.

That's the great thing about New York, there's always something to do.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.