Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.