When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

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

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

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

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.