As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

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.

The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences.

I always thought about you. From the night I took you home. I never really stopped thinking about you.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.