By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

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.

Today, take a dive in a beautiful, calm, tranquil lake of peace.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.