There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

All we got is the family unbroke.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world