Louis L'Amour Quotes

What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing it against a time of need, then suddenly it bursts into […]

The old man nodded. “Trust your instincts. Life teaches us much of which we are not aware. Our senses perceive things that do not impinge upon our awareness, but they lie dormant within us and affect our recognition of people and conditions. But you must be patient. In impatience lies danger.

Hardy grinned at the thought. “Never was a horse that couldn’t be rode, an’ there never was a rider who couldn’t be throwed.”

The book has been man’s greatest triumph. Seated in my library, I live in a time machine. In an instant I can be transmitted to any era, any part of the world, even to outer space. I have lived in every period of history. I have listened to Buddha speak, marched with Alexander, sailed with […]

All I know is that I shall never rest easy until I have gone into the desert alone. Until I have followed some of those trails to wherever they go.

Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, […]