Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

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My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones.

And they all have pretty children, And the children go to school, And the children go to summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in boxesAnd they come out all the same.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

Sometimes God guides by what He withholds, rather than what He provides.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon.

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.