Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.