I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.