Georg Brandes

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.