When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.

I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.

If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.