Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

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.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.