I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

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.

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

The Spirit calls..!

When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.

Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?

We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Courage refuses frontiers!

He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.