The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

The true measure of what you put in, is what's received on the other end.

Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!