Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

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.

Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.

Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

There was nothing a good adventure couldn't cure.