I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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.

The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

It was a cookie, not a crack pipe.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.