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.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

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.

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.

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

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.