Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

If it doesn't open, it's not your door

As far as I know, I'm the most honest person I’ve met in this life.

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.