Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.