Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.