I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

But a man needs company.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.