The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

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 probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

None of my problems come from the people I've killed.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.