He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

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.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Being gifted needs courage.

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

One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Co-leadership should permeate every organization at every level.

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.

But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.