You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
