I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.