All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."