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

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

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.

"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

It is very important to keep the communication lines flowing so that you develop mutual admiration and respect.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

When things go wrong don't go with them.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Without freedom there is no art.

Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.