Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

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.

There is no question- love is the answer

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.