Born on June 19th

"In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe."

"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."

"Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism."

"It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts."

"Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'"

"There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old."

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."

"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."

"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."

"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."

"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."