Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

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 irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The world is less violent than it has ever been.

In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

Content pays an ongoing information annuity that other forms of marketing simply do not.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.