Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

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.