. . . 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.

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.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

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

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.