I take a breath when I have to.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

I rarely take time to feel embarrassed. I just figure it's God keeping me humble, and try not to mess up again.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.