"The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

"There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side."

"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."

"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"History is more or less bunk."

"These are the times that try men's souls."

"Time makes more converts than reason."

"I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can."

"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."

"It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana."

"You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal."

"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."

"I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?"

"Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth."

"I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today."

"On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing."

"I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time."