Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

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.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-

If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.