Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

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.

Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.

All it takes, is one leap of faith.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafriad of toil

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

I'm a big advocate of being around the things that you want to do eventually, and being around people who are doing them.

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.