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.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

To smile pleasantly is to own the moment fully.To think pleasantly is to enjoy the moment fully.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.