Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called "My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business." A publisher came to me and said write a book so I did. I wanted to call it "Everybody Else Has Got a Book."

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.