Miranda

“At another time she had said, “Do not be afraid. A little fear can make one cautious. Too much fear can rob you of initiative. Respect fear, but use it for an incentive, do not let it bind you or tie you down.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods

“Actually," he said one morning, "all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you an education."

"What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in all the colors yourself.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods

“There is no greater role for a man to play than to assist in the government of a people, nor anyone lower than he who misuses that power.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods

“One does not need education to be intelligent, and these men might be short on what educated men use in the way of information, but their wits were sharp, their minds were alert, they were prepared to move, to change, to adapt at the slightest need. “All about them were conditions and circumstances to which they must adjust, attack by Indians or outlaw trappers was an ever-present danger, they lived on the very knife-edge of reality, and when this is so, the mind becomes a beautifully tuned instrument.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods