I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

I dont really believe in regrets.

I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.