The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

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.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.