Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.