It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.
Art is a profession, not a shrine.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.