Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.

I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

The one thing women love more than money is power.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

A small profit is better than a big loss.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.