Much of command is the ability to take command.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

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