The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

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.

I can only imagine how happy life would be if we could stay so grounded in our faith that we would never waver in our positive attitudes.

Great is the sin. But greater is God's grace.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day!

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I am a charity campaigner.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.