With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.

Avoid being a 'groan' up.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

I can talk to you all day. I just might not say anything though.

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Polite beggary is too common.