“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.”