Much of command is the ability to take command.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

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

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.