The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

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.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.

What's your vision of what you think should happen? How can you make it happen? Go stand in your power and walk with intention to make it so.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.