It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.

The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing the world will go on for another billion years after death and you will have no recollection of anything, just as you have no recollection of the billion years before your birth is a mind-boggling intuition,

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.