Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

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 choice [is} a familiar one

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.