At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.