A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?

Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.