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.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

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.

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.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

Imitations only better the original.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.