There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

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.

Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.

If only you knew what God has in the book of success for you, you wouldn't have a single reason to live in doubts and worries again.

The thing about finishing a story is that finishing is really only the beginning.

Courtesy with them is tariqa and following them is haqiqa.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.