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What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.
The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.
If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.
To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.
When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.
I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.