I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

You are the rainbow that adds color to my gray skies.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.

A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Republicans always are gearing whatever they do to benefit the high end.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.