Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.

I am terrified of being bored.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

What you do to benefit the lives of others will ultimately also benefit you.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.