You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

When I get economic development calls from business leaders who are considering relocating or expanding in Arkansas, the abilities of our workforce are always a critical part of the conversation.

Like all Americans, Arkansans hurt for the Syrian refugees. The hardships they face are beyond most of our understanding, and my thoughts and prayers are with them, but I will not support a policy that poses real risk to Americans.

There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.