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

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

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.

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 you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling

Boogity, boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.