Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

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.

Angelica rolled the wedding band between her finger and thumb. "It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

Donald Trump just announced that if Republicans don't treat him fairly, he will resurrect the Whig party and run as its hair apparent.

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.