You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.