In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

Virtue is not photogenic.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.