From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

Only in America could a Don King happen.

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Family is 100 per cent my top priority.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?"

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

There is no redemption from hell.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.