Louis L'Amour ...
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
"Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it."
"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."
"No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations."
"Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a childs coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself."
"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."