If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

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 don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success.

There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.

Before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.