Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.
Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.
You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
A body shouldn’t heed what might be. He’s got to do with what is.
I’m like a big old hen. I can’t cluck too long about the egg I’ve just laid because I’ve got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.
A journey is time suspended.
A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
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.