“A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.”

“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.”

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

“Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.”

“I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.”

“I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.”

“I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.”

“I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.”

“I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.”

“I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.”

“I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.”

“If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.”

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

“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.”

“Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.”

“Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.”

“The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.”

“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 success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.”

“The ultimate mystery is one's own self.”

“There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.”

“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”

“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.”

“When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.”

“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”