Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

A good beginning makes a good end.