I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.
Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.
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...
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
You would be wise" he agreed, "To go to Cordoba or Toledo. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is fo...
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 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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
. . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know?There is time, she said, but the sooner you know, the sooner you...
Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.