Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

The key to longevity: keep breathing.

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.

Keep breathing.

And like a colorful bloom of temporary lights in the sky, you will shine.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

Boys ignored me. I never thought I was gorgeous.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.