Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

She is the light, at the end of this endless tunnel.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.