I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

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.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

Being gifted needs courage.