Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.

— Louis L'Amour

Evil often comes to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it. I say this, who am Maturing Bouchard, a homeless wanderer upon the earth's far roads. I speak as one who has known hunger and feast, poverty and riches, the glory of the sword and the humility of the defenseless. Hunger inspires no talent, and carried too far, it deadens the faculties and destroys initiative...

— Louis L'Amour

Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

— Louis L'Amour

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

— Louis L'Amour

Folks can’t seem to realize that it isn’t a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.

— Louis L'Amour

Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one.

— Louis L'Amour

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman, and usually they are sure there is one handy.

— Louis L'Amour

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.

— Louis L'Amour

For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

— Louis L'Amour

Hate would destroy him who hated.

— Louis L'Amour