The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.

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

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.