Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.