The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

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.

Love is the secret language of the heart which everyone can understand.

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

What stands between heaven and earth is merely the acceptance of ourselves as apart of this world and our placement of ourselves.