Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.