"I had to be there for her. She is the mother of my children. And we never stopped being friends. I still accept her story that the shooting was accidental. Bing Crosby's wife once told me that she was amazed that I had taken so much trouble to help Claudine after we divorced. I said that anybody would have done the same thing, and she said: 'Bing wouldn't.' I think she meant that Bing was a very rigid guy, and once you had screwed up, you were off his list. Well, that's not the kind of guy I am." - on his support of ex-wife Claudine Longet after she killed her lover, skier Spider Sabich, in 1976. "The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith." "I still don't think I'm as good as anyone else."