You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

I had a lot of fun [on The Voice] and I learned a whole lot about reality TV, for one, and how they kind of use the artists as characters to make a hit TV show.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.