. . . 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.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

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.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

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

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.