When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...