Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

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.

He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

I can also speak to small woodland creatures, ” he grins at me.

My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

I live in Jesus, on Jesus, with Jesus, and soon hope to be perfectly conformed to His likeness.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.