The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

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.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.