Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

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

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