“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”

“Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence.”

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”