Comedy is acting out optimism.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.