“I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.”

Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

You never fail until you stop trying.