I've met presidents, but I've never performed for one. I said it was the first time in 50 years I actually had butterflies. You know, the Obamas were sitting out there, the Supreme Court, Maya Angelou, and Desmond Tutu for God's sake, all in the front row.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

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."

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.