Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.