In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

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 was told to be accurate be brief and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.