“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.

We’re constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We’re finding it where we didn’t think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We’re finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we’re having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what’s possible on this planet alone.

Reality really is a theatre. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbors and they often borrow each other’s sugar.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you’re first coming up and I think that’s good for you. Eventually, you get to express your real personality.

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

Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something, Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

I’m racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson’s back when he was black.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.

I’m still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

I was a Republican until they lost their minds.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.