Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

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

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.

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

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.

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

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

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

The first impression is the truth and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory.

Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

Never give up. Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it. You think it'd be fun.

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.

I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.

I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover.

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.