Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

The bluest skies . . . are in Seattle.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance too, but it hurts now!

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Because the reward is worth the risk.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.