I stand for what I stand on.

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.

The grandeur of God, the glory of His majesty.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

no people can be both ignorant and free.

You get up each morning and do what you can to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

I really think of the studio as being like craftsmanship time, and then playing is about releasing energy, and the two are really different.

Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.