Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

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 have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

I also held several masters running titles.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

Excellent wine generates enthusiasm. And whatever you do with enthusiasm is generally successful.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.