Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

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.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.