The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

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.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

There is no trusting appearances.

Look at it this way," Ms. Terwilliger said, after several moments of thought. "The callistana thinks of you two as its parents.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.