Quotes from Louis L'Amour

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

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.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

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

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

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

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.