I don't really believe in regrets.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I've always had great faith in people.

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

I love taking chances.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

I don't really believe in regrets.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.

One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.