Frank Sinatra
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.Collection: Chance
I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.Collection: God
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.Collection: Religion
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.Collection: Religion
I'm gonna live till I die.Collection: Death
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.Collection: Women
For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.Collection: Business
Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.Collection: Respect
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.Collection: Attitude
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.Collection: Women
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.Collection: Good
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.Collection: Love
The best revenge is massive success.Collection: Best
I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.Collection: Respect
I'm for whatever gets you through the night.Collection: Funny
I am a thing of beauty.Collection: Beauty
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.Collection: Happiness
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Don't get even, get mad.
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.
You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.
Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.
Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you areCollection: Scar
Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.Collection: Life
You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.Collection: You Only Live Once
If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.Collection: Dream
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.Collection: Baby
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.Collection: Negativity
The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.Collection: Thinking
A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.Collection: Strong
You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.Collection: Pain
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.Collection: Music
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.Collection: Stars
The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.Collection: Best Is Yet To Come
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.Collection: Funny
When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.Collection: Honesty
Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.Collection: Crush
You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.Collection: Play