For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me and nothing before me but hope.
We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselv...
A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.
You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
If there is something, though, if there is...well, I believe in the things I love...the feel of a good horse under me, the blue along those mountains over yonder, the firm, confident feel of a good gu...
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.
There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.
The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the...
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.
My future is one I must make myself.
Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.
I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.
Hate would destroy him who hated.