Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.
Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.
I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!
A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.
What can the will do when the heart commands?
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.
The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.
Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
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