When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.