They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.