The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

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.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Don’t fear challenges. They often give us the opportunity to strengthen our courage, faith, and inner strength.

Believe in yourself. Determined to pursue your goals.

He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons, --only, " he added, "ours must be tranquil.

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

I want to be violated by insight.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.