Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

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.

Be as audaciousAs you wish.By all means look to the heavens.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place of comfort for the person and a way for our dialogue to be more fluid.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.