Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

There is always a need for a visionary man your vision will make you relevant in the scheme of men and your relevance will birth the needed money depending on the level of your functional-ability.

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them off limits. (within reason)

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them.

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.