Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

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.

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

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

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.