I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

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.

Fill your mind, with the mind of God, meditate on the Holy Scripture.

No, " I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.

Contrariety triumphed in the great hullaballoo of the end of the world!

More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.

The bringer of fear was afraid.

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.