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.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.