Having a phobia has changed me.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.