Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

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.

This world is wrong. We have to correct it.

Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.