There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

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'.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.