I am careful with my material and presentation.

My whole act is confession.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I developed several comedy phone calls.

Oh! Let me love forever. Let me dream in love. Without power of love, life is a waterless river.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.

Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.