louis l amour

“ One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. ”

“ Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. ”

“ Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ”

“ Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence. ”

“ Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ”

“ Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years.... ”

“ To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. ”

“ Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ”

“ Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. ”

“ The Apache don't have a word for love, he said. ”