I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.