What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

Hate would destroy him who hated.