It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

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.

What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again.

I shop more than most women.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

A person who will not take care of the little things will not take care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of little things.

We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.