I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me.

When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep ... counting my blessings.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted.

Without any reason or expectation, love someone today and feel the joy of life.

No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.