Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

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.

And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science")

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

Death is a master from Germany.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Those who prepare for war get it.