All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

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.

Do not pay attention to difficulties and life’s troubles, you only need to believe

In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.