where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.