I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

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.

Sufism is experiential

It is only the wife, and not just any woman, who constitutes the noble soil that produces excellent fruits

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

If you don't appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.