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.

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

When we protect ourselves from what we fear, we also undermine our capacity for wonder.

Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.