There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.

The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s the love you long to give that nobody wants.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

I don't think I'm funny.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.