It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.