Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Kids do say the darndest things

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self

Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

Business succeed when friends and relatives pays their bills promptly.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.