In the three years I played ball we won six lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.

The Bible says that to have a friend we must show ourselves friendly. To that, I say, “Amen.

If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong!

Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.