I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Trouble is part of your life

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain?

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my 'shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts.

Life begins at eighty.

I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.

Self worth and net worth are not the same.

What you are looking to create is a positive, happy life: the more you intend that your thoughts are positive and happy, the more that is what you will create.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.