Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is... a lie.

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.