I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

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.

...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all