Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.