You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

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.

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

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