Being gifted needs courage.

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.

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

Pride would have destroyed me. But i were able to cheat on pride. if i could cheat on pride then i could cheat on success too. Both were never meant to good lovers. Jovita Efehi Obadolagonyi

All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.