A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Lenny Kravitz

 

"Zed's Dead, Baby, Zed's Dead..." - Butchie

 

"a fella hadn't ought ta run from nothin cause a man jest cant git nothing did that a way."
Festus Hagan

 

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
- Eddie Rickenbacher

 

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." -- Edward Abbey

 

"Resist much, obey little" -- Walt Whitman

 

Edward Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989)

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the government and outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

Let us hope our weapons are never needed—but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life - that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

The essence of true wilderness is big mammals that can eat you.

Climbing K-2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube: There are some things one would rather *have done* than *do*

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

always pull up survey stakes, anywhere you find them. anywhere.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets--the seventeen who got away.

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

 

Permanen ser sentados, Por favor. Remain seated Please. - Matterhorn; Disneyland.

 

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

 

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.


It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden