“The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don’t know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.”

I love a success story, but even more than a success story; I like a dude who fucks his life up and gets his life together again story.

I want to make sure that everything that I’m creating, I’m creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that’s the reward that you get for that.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don’t workout.

Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep moving. Before you know it, you look back and think, ‘What was that?

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer. Quotes

You can’t measure what’s inside a man’s heart. Quotes

My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they’re my best friends.

The audience changes every night. You’re the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

One of the things that happened is I did a lot of shitty gigs. When you do a bunch of shitty bar gigs you have to get used to people yelling at you, you’re used to thinking on the fly, to dealing with weird situations.

Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow, We know that inherently that feels great.

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Reading is an essential tool to keep the mind sharp and the imagination running wild & free.

Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Reading inspires us to dream.