If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
My home has always been show business.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."
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.