I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Good things happen to those who hustle.