Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

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

The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.

Hate would destroy him who hated.