Who's happy these days?

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs.

Don't give a gift with expectation to get but if you have got a gift always try to give.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

Sports can't be run by governments.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.

After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.