“[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.”

“I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.”

“Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking about it now, they've never left.”

“I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.”

“Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books”

“It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.”

“We should never judge a day by its weather.”