Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.