In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I’m sorry to say you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it... There's nothing that can stop you.

If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.