A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

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