Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Power is not a means

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams

You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Everyone is giving something. Everyone is giving what has their heart. What I'm giving you is what has my heart.

Nutrition can make or break you on race day. It's not something you leave to chance. If you don't plan for it you're almost guaranteed to bonk.