I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

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

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

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

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

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

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

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

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

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

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

When youre young and you fall off a horse you may break something. When youre my age you splatter.

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it's under the couch in the living room.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.