The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

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 fear of losing someone you love can turn people inside out.

We are our choices.. That's why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself..

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever.

Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.