Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation." One side of his lip cricked up. "I found you. I'll take my chances.

"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.

Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.