When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

If it's free put me down for two please

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.