For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of...
To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.
To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.
Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This-- I held out my hands --this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to w...
I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.
He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. "Tread lightly on the paths," he had told me. "Others will come w...
To survive? What is that? A mouse lives, a fly lives; one flees in terror, another lives in filth. They exist, they are, but do they live?
The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always...
Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.
I came into the world with two priceless advantages: good health and a love of learning. When I left school at the age of fifteen I was halfway through the tenth grade. I left for two reasons, economi...
How many time have I talked with people who have ridden the trails where I have ridden, yet had seen nothing? They passed over the land just to get over it, not to live with it and see it, feel it. Th...