A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

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

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.