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.
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
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.
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.
Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.
Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.
Much of command is the ability to take command.
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
Hate would destroy him who hated.
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.
Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.
A good beginning makes a good end.
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.
Knowledge was meant to be shared.
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.
A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
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