A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in working unless… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“That was the trouble with California in the 1840's. The life was too easy, there was no necessity for struggle, and men… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“The buzzard could not reason but he knew the patterns that led to food. His entire life was built upon such fragments… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“You are an educated man, Old One.' 'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“If there is something, though, if there is...well, I believe in the things I love...the feel of a good horse under me,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“If you play games with men,” he replied, “you’ll play by men’s rules.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?” “You can’t say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn’t what it means, either.… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
