I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.
I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.
Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.
They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.
My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
