What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

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.

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

No one wants to get hurt but without pain how can we win?

Work alone is noble.

TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.

He who waits on God loses no time.