I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

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.

How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

I am really glad to be working at the profession that I love.

Where there is no truth there is no grace.

My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.