George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I've known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.

In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

If you focus on the sunshine in life, you will see the darkness fade.

In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.

A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

I don't talk people into the Kingdom, I listen them into it!

Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.