Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I love life because what more is there?

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

I look just like the girls next door… if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.