Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

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

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

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 like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.