We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.