If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.