I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

So you see, you can't do everything alone.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Don't confuse stories with facts. ...When you generate stories in the blink of an eye, you can get so caught up in the moment the you begin to believe your stories are facts.

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Eric Holder, our attorney general, says the Mr. Snowden will be brought to justice. Just as soon as we can find someone who can track his calls and read his emails.

So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

Short-sightedness is killing us.

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.