Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

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.

I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

I don't like very young women very much. Never did.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

Laws are not made for the good.

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.