Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.

We should never judge a day by its weather.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost." James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.