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

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.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger for food but the real hunger the deep hunger for family for love for belonging.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

My dad never explained anything growing up.

Apologies are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move on, you can grow, you can do better in the future.

I don't have the best dating track record.

I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times.

In meeting the challenges of organic growth, BlackRock has the advantage of having an executive team greatly respected for what it has accomplished.

There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.

I love fashion. I like looking fresh and wearing new stuff.

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.

I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.