Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
Viewers figure, ‘Uncle Willard doesn’t know any more about the weather than I do.’ They’re right.
I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children’s show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
The critics – how come you never see any of them on TV?
Nature’s a tranquilizer as you get older.
I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
Everything I’ve ever done in my life has been a fluke.
I think women can cope a lot better than men.
A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
No libraries, no progress.
I’ve produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they’ve all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.