I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

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.

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.

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

The Art of Muses is the Bridge of Feeling.

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

I represent Jesus on this earth and he represents me in heaven.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.