Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie.

You can only diffuse light in dark places.

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

No one should be judge in his own case.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Romance is the poetry of literature.