Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.