The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I don’t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever to be a bit distracting.

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.