If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

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.

You got beat up. Bones and bruises heal. Those girls didn't win because they didn't do what they wanted. They wanted to break you. I was already broken."You're not broken at all.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

My real fans know who I truly am and they know what I represent and what I mean.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Giving calls for genius.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.