What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life. - Louis L'Amour

Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

"It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. "Tread lightly on the paths," he had told me. "Others will come when you have gone."

That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two."