If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

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

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.