“The older I get, the better I was.”

“It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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