There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep ... counting my blessings.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.