To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
From Louis L'Amour
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it.
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
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