A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it’s a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one’s own actions.
It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. —Louis L’Amour
I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not...
He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter...
A forest is a living thing like a human body...each part dependent on all the other parts. A forest needs its birds, its beaver...all its animals and plants. The forest gives shelter to the birds, but...
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to...
To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.
Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life int...
To be a man was to be responsible. It was as simple as that. To be a man was to build something, to try to make the world about him a bit easier to live in for himself and those who followed. You coul...
The Apache don't have a word for love, he said. Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?Tell me.Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.
Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in working unless one works for someone, for something.
It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an ine...
Destarte! How musical! What does it mean? You can't say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn't what it means, either. Indian words are more than just that. They also mean the feel an...
A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.