I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

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.

People want to believe.

If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.

The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.

Survival's the thing, isn't it?

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.