If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

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.

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

We got life to live, not to survive, do the things you always want to & be the person you always desire to be. don't let other people deal with it..!!

If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all?

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.