Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

. . . 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.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.