All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

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.

With patient and perseverance, the mountain is conquered.

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.