One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

The god of fools is a fool just like them.

The ‘do nothing everything will be all right’ default plan is determined by the IRS and government.

Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales, ” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

I did disagree with Ronald Reagan very strongly on trade. I disagreed with him. We should have been much tougher on trade even then. I've been waiting for years. Nobody does it right.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.