I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

If people are not laughing at your Goals, your Goals are not big enough!

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.