"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible."

"I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect."

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get."

"....I've got to get to the top of the hill.."

"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?"

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance."