A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

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.

Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Leadership comes with consistency.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!