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

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

Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

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

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.

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