We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'