People can learn a lot about Tesla’s character only by seeing descriptions of his life and his close ones. “I had two old aunts with wrinkled faces, one of them having two teeth protruding like the tusks of an elephant which she buried in my cheek every time she kissed me. Nothing would scare me more than the prospect of being hugged by these as affectionate as unattractive relatives. It happened that while being carried in my mother's arms they asked me who was the prettier of the two. After examining their faces intently, I answered thoughtfully, pointing to one of them, This here is not as ugly as the other." Even as a child, he was witty, straightforward, and brutally honest.