“You just need people with the desire to better themselves.”

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child.

You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn.

He knows it’s important but he doesn’t know what to do with it.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Speak briefly and to the point.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing i could never have him.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.

I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.