You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

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.

As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble.

Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.