. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

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

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.