I try to avoid political ties.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

You can possess what you dream of.

Think about the suffering we cause ourselves internally through getting angry or jealous.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

I think every Internet user likes personalization.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

As good luck would have it.