I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Say Goodnight Gracie.