I do not see eye to eye with the camera.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

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.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.

I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens.

A blind ingenuity goes nowhere

Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'