Don Knotts Quotes

“Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.”

“Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts”

“If you are still alive when you read this,close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black.”

“I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible.”

“No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.”

“I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.”

“In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.”

“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.”

“If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.”

“What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion.”