Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.