Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange and new to you.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

See with eyes unclouded by hate.

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.

Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.