The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

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.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.