I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

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.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art

Put love in everything you do. If you can't, then maybe you shouldn't do.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.