I always try and do everything I can to the best of my abilities, single aspect has to be perfect.

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.

Where our attention goes, our mind and body go, too.

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

Modernization means Westernization.

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.