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

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.

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

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

Gratitude is an indescribable quality in the lives of those living in abundance.

Youthful strength is a great blessing.

There’s no preparation for poetry.

Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [...] giving up on love.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.