To be the best, learn from the best

All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need.

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

Change is a sheep in wolf's clothing

The audience wants you present, not perfect.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

Don't make anyone ask for love.

Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.