You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

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.

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.

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

Doubt holds us back from doing the things we love.

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!