Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

See more than your eyes can see.Hear more than your ears can hear.Do more than your hands can do.Go further than your feet can go.

It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.

Our intuition is always operating for us.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone.