Any day above ground is a good one.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt.

The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.

I felt so peaceful and safe because I knew that no matter what happened, from that day on, nothing can ever be that bad..because I had you.

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

I live and breathe every element in life.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.