One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.

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.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

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

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will.

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