Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

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.

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Two men spit in their hands, help each other out, then laugh about it later. Just to be silly.

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad