I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Kids do say the darndest things

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.

Blessings come into the areas of a person’s life, where he is absolutely obedient to God.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Let all children come unto me.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.