The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.