Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

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.

What I think, is what I think.

I create my own heartbreaks!

It's a fact that at the deeper levels there are less humans.

sometimes you need to make a mess.

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.

The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.

All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.