We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

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.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains through old age to the last breath.

When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected!

The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Your hold on me is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that