A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Faith is a fertile field.

Give yourself and others the gift of your brilliance to deliver a more compelling and memorable presentation.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

You have to have a lot of kids.

The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.