There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

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

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

I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.