“Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it…”

“You know, Ham," Breeze noted. "The only funny thing about your jokes is how often they lack any humor whatsoever.”

“They [the best of the Masai] had that attitude that makes brothers, that unexpressed but instant and complete acceptance that you must be Masai wherever it is you come from. That attitude you only get from the best of the English, the best of the Hungarians and the very best Spaniards; the thing that used to be the most clear distinction of nobility when there was nobility. It is an ignorant attitude and the people who have it do not survive, but very few pleasanter things ever happen to you than the encountering of it.”

“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”

“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”

“Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.”

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

“Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny –
Did you ever try buying them without money.”

“It's not death if you refuse it…
It is if you accept it.”