Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

My home has always been show business.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.