It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.