There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

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.

We came to this world to enjoy the magic of love, the beauty of existence, and the joy of life. We did not come to this world to look for money and fame.

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

You don't think of the devil who's inside.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

The waterfall winks at every passerby.