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.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

I supported Donald Trump.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.