We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

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.

Stop stalling. Get out of your own way and go for it.

Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

Act only in Love. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.