“I am better than good.”

“The world is not for those who cry The world is for those who try”

“The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.It was:'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?”

“As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes.”

“I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.”

“I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.”

“When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.”