Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

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.

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.