Quotes from Louis L'Amour

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

You boys have saddled your bronc, now let's see if you can ride him

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

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

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

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

Hate would destroy him who hated.

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.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

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