I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

I'm very proud of my heritage.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Stapled to her gaze, sucked into the potency of her focus, only the trace of her blood in my mouth reassures me this is not a vision but a hallucinogenic pause from responsibility.

A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition

The king reigns but does not govern.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Let me say that no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have.

I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.