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

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.

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.

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

I build my life with light, love and loyalty.

You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Good is the enemy of great.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."

Peace is the product of justice and love.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.