Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

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.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me