The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.