If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

I have a trunk containing continents.