The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.

You never need an invitation to go home.

You are special person. Seek to develop your talents.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.