One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.”Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.