My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.