The pioneer kills what he loves.

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

One of the very best ways to keep in touch with your own ups and downs is to keep track of what activities energize you and which drain you - on a regular basis.

Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!

The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.

It seems like magic is something kids start really young.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?