I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.

God bless all the little children in the world.

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world.

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we would be happy with more?

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.