My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

There is always a next time

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.