Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.