School is a foretaste of life.
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Being gifted needs courage.
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.