And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Trouble is part of your life

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

Gracious words revived our spirit and restored our soul.

it's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds

You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself.

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.