We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.

How are we going to get out of here?""Oh, escape is easy once you have the right

I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

Truth is the first of jewels.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.