Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.