“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

Study the past if you would define the future.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Don’t use cannon to kill musquito.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.

I think there’s a percentage that don’t realize, that don’t know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It’s more of a it’s not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

It’s not the end. It’s the beginning.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?