Quotes By Louis L'Amour

“ One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. ”

“ Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. ”

“ Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ”

“ Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years.... ”

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

“ Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ”

“ Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. ”

“ The Apache don't have a word for love, he said. ”

“ 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. ”

“ I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it. ”