If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!