If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.