My first occupation was to map the country.

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are.

Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.

Beloved King of Comedy.

It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.