The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way.

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

You know who's upset now with ISIS? Al Qaeda. It's because ISIS is getting more attention than Al Qaeda. So now, Saturday night will be Ayman al-Zawahiri bobblehead night.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.