There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

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.

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.

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.