Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

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'.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

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.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.