You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

I am a thing of beauty.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.