. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God

Youthful exuberance is splendid.

Pioneering don't pay.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.