Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

Memory revises me.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.