Frank Sinatra

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

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.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

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.

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.

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.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

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.

I am a thing of beauty.

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.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Don't get even, get mad.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.