The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

I grew up in a Navy family.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I? I lets 'em.

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.