All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

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 only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.

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

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.