When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules

Don't be happy at me.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.