Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Creativity is very self-indulgent.
It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.