I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.

I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.

Every new day, I reach out to the best of myself by grace.

YOU will never know your STRENGTH until you overcome the WORST

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.