I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

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'.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

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.

My future is one I must make myself.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.