"You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God."

“The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.”

“I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.”

Source : "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”

Source : Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1952). “Rashomon: and other stories”

“Plant trees, Lots of trees”

“The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.”

“All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.”

“Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.”

“I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.”