Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

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

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.

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

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

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.