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."

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

We should never judge a day by its weather.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.