It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

When you denigrate people they have two ways to fight back with their fists and guns or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing theyre not going to hit you.

Comedians are really writers who dont have pens and pencils about them but they riff.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Economy is not baseball where the game is always played by the same rules.

I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.

The Scottish Government's international development work began in 2005 with a £3 million budget focused solely on Malawi, reflecting the historic links between our two countries.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

I love 'Modern Family; I think that is a great show. I don't get to watch tons of TV, but when I do, 'Sons of Anarchy' is pretty much the number one, and 'Modern Family' is one of my favorites.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

Since my 'Crown of Midnight' tour in 2013, we've had such a rapid jump in audience numbers that we've had to move to bigger venues, cap events, and find new and creative ways to keep the line flowing while still allowing me the chance to chat with each person, which will always be very, very important to me.

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.

If you're not out there taking some risks, if you're just coasting along with your wins, then you're not really trying.

The Internet's a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.

The word ˜wilderness' occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist desmoulins and to an under the counter writer sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

I did not have a reputation to defend.