Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.