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.

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

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

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

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.