A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

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.

Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves.

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause

I don't write books inadvertently.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."

The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.

Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.