The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

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 was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.

When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.