The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

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.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

She blinked at him, mouth open. "Do you really think it's wise to insult a woman who's holdin' a needle this far away? - she held her fingers an inch apart - "From your Grand Master of Ceremonies?

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

I think my favorite part about being on the road is that it's like a boys' club.

The quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportioned to the amount of fun its staff seems to be having.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.