I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help.

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180.

Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?