“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”

“My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.”

“At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.”

“Everything's coming up roses - for me.”

“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”

“The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.”