The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

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

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

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