What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so … - Louis L'Amour

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

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

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

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over, Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. ~Kearney McRaven

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

"We will always have Reeses and Heseltines, and they will always seem big and brave to growing boys. They swagger and make loud noises in their own little circle, but they are only the coyotes that yap around the heels of the herd."
'Remember this, Shell, the coyotes aren't going anywhere, but the herd is, and so are the men who drive the herd.