Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.

With best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future.

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

Memory Lane always seems to be under reconstruction.

Where you are today is where you're from tomorrow.

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

I'm 44 now and have been working in comics for most of my adult life. I've been blessed to have had the career that I've had and worked with the many awesome creators I have.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself.