Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

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.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.

Don't allow any set back to become bigger than your come back

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].