Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.