The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

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.

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

Life is transition.

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love.