When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it changed my career completely. He was my best friend, and I was his best friend... but I was never part of the Rat Pack.


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We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses...
ROY BENNETT
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your c...
ROY BENNETT
Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Y...
ROY BENNETT
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, ne...
ROY BENNETT
The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.
ROY BENNETT
Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happie...
ROY BENNETT
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
JILL BENNETT
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous...
BO BENNETT
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results i...
BO BENNETT
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In...
ALAN BENNETT
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valua...
BO BENNETT
It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin...
BO BENNETT
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk ...
ALAN BENNETT
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETT
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT