Much of command is the ability to take command.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

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

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

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.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles