Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many.
A good beginning makes a good end.
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles.
Politics is the art of making civilization work.
Much of command is the ability to take command.
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.
I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.
Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he’s working toward something.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he’s never been any place or done anything.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.
When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.