People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Every language has its own music.

If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.

There is no greater success than turning your true passion into a dream, and seeing its reality come to manifestation.

How we think is so important. There has to be a time when we stop just dealing with life and think about enjoying it.

We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

No man need stay the way he is.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I decided to be what crime made of me.

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.