Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

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.

An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.

You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

I think I've grown and learned a lot.

Pain is an outcry of sin.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!