A good beginning makes a good end.
Louis L'Amour

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
Louis L'Amour

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.
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

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

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

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'Amour

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Louis L'Amour

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Louis L'Amour

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
Louis L'Amour

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Louis L'Amour

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'Amour

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Louis L'Amour