There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

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 expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

I can't walk beside you for reasons of my own, but everytime you cross my mind, I send love to you, you know.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.