Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul.

Love in your heart is good medicine for long live. Hatred in your blood is the major cause of heart failure! Love people, get transfused with a fresh blood and you'll live long!

There's a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.