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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

My weight went up and down like a yo-yo.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.