I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

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.

I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.