My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.