The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Love is trembling happiness.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.