Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

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

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.