We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep.
People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.
And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining.
Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.
Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.
I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.