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

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

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.

When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I'm working on the intricacies of details of maneuvers that he still doesn't even know the names of.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.