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one of my favourite philosophers, historians, and story-tellers:
A good beginning makes a good end.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
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.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s colouring book. You must fill in the colours yourself.
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter of him
Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity and movement and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
This was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape
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 wastelands to the spirit
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
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.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Hate would destroy him who hated.
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
I have been nothing... but there is tomorrow
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime.... I would make something happen
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly
Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much
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
My future is one I must make myself
One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school, the little while I went, I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me, but I always got up
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness
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
The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope
To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action
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.
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.
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.
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible
To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you'll miss all you are traveling for.