A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be 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'.