Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Trouble is part of your life

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.