“what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?”
“When a guy says he's a 'simple man', what he's really telling you is he's cheap.”
“I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.”
“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”
“When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”
“the only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a good man does or a bad man”