I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

Be humble and grateful for what you have and the universe will reward your gratitude.

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

Look inside, without anyone else's validation understand that you are valuable, talented, unique, and worthy.

Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.

What is it you want? My reply, I want what I have.

Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

Sometimes is necessary to fall from grace to teach indecent.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

I feel strangely normal.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.