“Change isn’t always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.”

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn’t care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole ‘Super Bowl’ generalization of our world – You’re on this side, I’m on that side; you’re a Republican, I’m a Democrat; you’re country music, I’m rock music.

Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what’s going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle.

I can tell you that I’d rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I’ve known.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

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.

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes.

I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn’t a vegetarian long before I realized there’s something to that.

I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.

I’m inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I’m writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear ‘The Stranger.’ ‘You May Be Right’ may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

Antidepressants are very good, but it’s a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you’re in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.