Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

I can only strive for what is important

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Hope is the passion to receive your heart’s desires.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

You can rescue a woman from a dragon - because you can go slay the dragon - but you can't rescue a woman from herself.

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

To be haunted by my heart is no threat.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.