I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

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. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night.

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.