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.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

A good beginning makes a good end.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.