At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better. '
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
I am the creator of my reality
Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs
It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants. . . they will refuse to have 18 children. . . . If you treat Roman Catholics with due consideration and kindness, they will live like Protestants in spite of the authoritative nature of their Church.
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.
Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.