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

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

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 when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.