You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling.

I grew up beyond proud - we didnt have much, but we had a lot of love.

Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me, how could I possibly belong any place else?

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

I'm going to be as big as Sinatra.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don’t --Alvin Ailey

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.