When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

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.

We have all been hurt at some point in our lives, from a spouse, a friend, an employer, a co-worker, a pastor and sometimes the wounds are so deep we wonder if they will ever heal.

Happiness is spending time with the one you love without a worry or a care.

He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Our competition is different. They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they'll do next?

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.