"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me."

"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend."

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."

"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be."

"I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries."

"My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan."