We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

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

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is... a lie.

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.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.