I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.

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.

An inexhaustible imagination is the fountain of youth.

Dream is a way to communicate invented by the heavenly beings.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.