Louis L'Amour

“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.”

“I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.”

“No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.”

“A good beginning makes a good end.”

“All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.”

“Evil comes often to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it. I say this, who am Mathurin Kerbouchard, a homeless wanderer upon the earth's far roads. I speak as one who has known hunger and feast, poverty and riches, the glory of the sword and the humility of the defenseless. Hunger inspires no talent, and carried too far, it deadens the faculties and destroys initiative...”

“You would be wise" he agreed, "To go to Cordoba or Toledo. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is forever.”

“People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.”