through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth

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.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.