I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.

The Best Is Always Yet To Come

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

Darkness within clouds the world without.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.