Louis L'Amour
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.Collection: Inspirational
Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.Collection: Dog
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta doCollection: Men
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
Much of command is the ability to take command.Collection: Ability
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.Collection: Today
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.Collection: Mind
Hate would destroy him who hated.Collection: Hate
For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are manyCollection: Opportunity
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.Collection: Gratitude
Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.Collection: Change
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.Collection: Scare
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.Collection: Thinking
But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.Collection: Night
Knowledge was meant to be shared.Collection: Knowledge
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.Collection: Block
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.Collection: Journey
A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.Collection: Men
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.Collection: Book
It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.Collection: Fear
One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.Collection: Land
Politics is the art of making civilization work.Collection: Art
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.Collection: Acceptance