The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Every director is so different from every other one.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

You don't become the character.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

I've always internalized things.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

I was famous from birth.

Regular chiropractic adjustments go hand in hand with good health.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?