Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

If you ain't laughing, you ain't living, baby.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

You bloody silly fool!

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.