My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

Everyone become a creation of their environment.

I simply want to live

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.