Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

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.

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.

Everything you want is hidden in faith.

Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.

I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.