The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.