When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

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.

I sure as hell didn't wish upon a star to fall for a Vampyre.(Forsaken- A Velicious Novel)

Her ‘death’ was the only way for her to live.

Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.