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" Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields. "

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" Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible. "

" My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68. "

" Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. "

" The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever! "

" My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. "

" I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting. "

" I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul. "

" I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am. "

" I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents. "

" Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. "

" When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends. "

" Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents. "

" When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true. "

" The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead. "

" Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right. "

" I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air. "

" I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something. "

" I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me. "

" I talk too much. I eat too much. "

" 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. "

" There is something endearing about the weatherman. "

" It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary. "

" Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.' "

" August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation. "

" Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside. "

" There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them. "

" It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares? "

" People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal. "