Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she’s a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.
There’s no stopping a man who knows he’s in the right and keeps a-coming.
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It’s to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.
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.