If you love love, then love loves you too

I wouldn't take nothin' but a Ford: F-O-R-D, period. Ain't nothin' like a Ford. I wouldn't drive a Chevrolet 'cause I can't spell it.

I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.

My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.

Everything will be fine in the end. If it's not fine, it's not the end.

Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.