In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

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 still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

I'm always a work in progress.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.