To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

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.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

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