What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.