Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

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.

i'm in love with every creature on earth.. i don't want nobody to suffer, because i can feel the pain from all of them.. and i want to gave them love.. every creature on earth...

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people like the Chekhov story The Lady With the Little Dog.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.