Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.