The Greatest Victory Is Defeat.

Poetry Is To Hold Judgment On Your Soul.

The Strongest Men Are The Most Alone.

Happiness Is Above All Things The Calm, Glad Certainty Of Innocence.

You See, There Are Some People That One Loves, And Others That Perhaps One Would Rather Be With.

It Is Not For A Care-free Existence I Am Fighting, But For The Possibility Of Devoting Myself To The Task Which I Believe And Know Has Been Laid Upon Me By God -- The Work Which Seems To Me More Important And Needful In Norway Than Any Other, That Of Arousing The Nation And Leading It To Think Great Thoughts.