When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

Don't try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane."

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

Although time is equally possessed by everyone, it is valued and used differently by the successful.

A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.