The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

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.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand