Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

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.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?

The only failure is not to try.

Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?

Happiness is self-connectedness.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

I would play football, because I love it.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.