My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.