A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

A journey is time suspended.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.