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.

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

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.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.