The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

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.

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?

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

This mix of love and hate, this blend of trust and hurt I have for him is so confusing even I can't understand it.He leaves, and I break.

We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

Winning breeds winning.

Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.