Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

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.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!