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 ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy next door.

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.

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.