I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

I don't know a high C from a low C.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.