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.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

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

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.