our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

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.

When we find money in the street, we happily pick it up, even if it’s just a buck, but when we bump into love, we tend to be so picky.

They say that 'life is full of choices, ' but the only choice that I see is living on the bright side of life.

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

When you love someone, what they want is the best that you can give them.

Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.