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

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

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

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.