Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.