I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

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.

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.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.