A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

An attitude will give you heft.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

If someone was to tell you that you were a witch, I think that it would be somewhat like, "You've got to be kidding me! I'm out of here! You're crazy!"

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.