Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

i'm too lazy to go find happiness, but i'm sure it will swing by sometime

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

A ghostly voice shivered along my spine, whispering, "We shall meet soon, bèt nan bwa.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!