When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

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.

The color of truth is grey.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have #‎ Christmas every day!

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.