And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.