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

Much of command is the ability to take command.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

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

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.