Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'