Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, 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.

Life is education, it only end in death.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

He who has Jesus has everything.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.