When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

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.

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.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free, " Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries, " Caroline said.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.

I look at Breaking Bad as a show about the American family.

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere