Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

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.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much

I have learned it’s best to face down the trouble. Otherwise it will grow into a monster. We don’t have time for monsters.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.