The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

Writing a book is an adventure.