And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

Zip zop wop boopity bop.

I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

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.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.