When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

You have to always keep conditioning. My coach used to say, "You play like you practice." If you practice s - -ty, you're going to play s - -ty.

I'm not leaving America because it doesn't support me.

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one of the first ever that began when interest rates are down.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.