Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

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.

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.

We will never surrender but go forward to win the game.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

Murder is terribly exhausting.

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.