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

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.

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

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all?For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire, I am an answer, they are only a call

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.

Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.