A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

— Louis L'Amour

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 child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

— Louis L'Amour

A good beginning makes a good end.

— Louis L'Amour

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

— Louis L'Amour

A journey is time suspended.

— Louis L'Amour

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.

— Louis L'Amour

A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

— Louis L'Amour

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

— Louis L'Amour

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

— Louis L'Amour

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.

— Louis L'Amour