We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

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.

Those who earn your trust by surprise will leave surprisingly

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

I love to engage people who think differently than I do.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.