Truth Be Known

“Every family needs that one unstable person who has no fear and is willing to go to war with whoever messes with their tribe.”

“What a man knows isn’t important. It’s what he is that counts.” —Jack Schaefer, Shane

“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.” —Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Life is a serious problem to a man over thirty. To a man under thirty it is simply a game.” —Max Brand, Riders of the Silences

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb

“There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.”  —Alan Le May, The Searchers

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”  —Ray Bradbury

“Always seein’ ‘wayoff dreams of silver-blue, Always feelin’ thorns that slab and sting. Yet stampedin’ never made a dream come true, So I ride around myself and sing.” —Charles Badger Clark, Sun and Saddle Leather, Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems

“Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.” —Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me.” —Wallace Stegner, The American West as Living Space

“…in a country like ours, where a woman needs only the courage to enter a profession suitable to her talents and within her powers of accomplishment.”  —Frances Benjamin Johnston, What a Woman Can do with a Camera