In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I've known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.

George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

I wait in fear, as the shadows draw near, spreading over the sky, will I live or die?

Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

When you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activity…it is a gift from God.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

My wife calls our waterbed the Dead Sea.