When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,

the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-

as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

Unless one is at heart a rascal, I think he becomes a little better in many ways by assuming leadership.

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up and she's a woman and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

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

A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows she prefers different.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

Them Injuns. Takin the country off em. In good times it must've been a fine life they had, huntin and fishin or driftin down the country on the trail of the buffalo. I ain't sure what we'll do to the country will be any better.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.