Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
She had believed the land was her enemy, and she struggled against it, but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it, to belong to it, to fit into its seasons and its ways.
You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
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.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Hate would destroy him who hated.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
