I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.