If you go up HUMBLED, you'll come down PROUD. But if you go up PROUDLY you'll come down HUMBLED.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still.

Nothing stays together without a fight.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.

Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!