A good beginning makes a good end.

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.

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.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

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

Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.