241 Quotes by Frank Sinatra

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

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.

I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you....

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.

Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

If I did half of what they say, I wouldn't be here - I'd be in a jar at Harvard.

Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

If I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I'd now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.