The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

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 is amazing what women in love will do

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.