I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

The truth will make you odd.

Keep flowing even its good or bad. Stilness is ultimate result of flow, path of yoga is to keep flowing.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

As Eternity has reckonedThere's a lifetime in a second

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.