Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.