Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.