I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Smiles are the language of love.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Laughter is America’s most important export.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

You can only have one aim per debate.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.