In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

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.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

You're either living your dreams, or living your fears.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.