"These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri."

“What is now in the past was once in the future”

Source : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

“A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.”

“If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.”

“The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.”

“There is no solution or perfect model you can follow. The best thing I can say is you've got to get close to what you really value. When you strip away your role as a parent, as a mother, and as an executive, what really makes your heart sing? How can you make your mark?”

“It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.”

“Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.”

“Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case.”

Source : John Gierach (1990). “Sex, death, and fly-fishing”, Fireside