I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning. . . They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.
Real strength has to do with helping others.
When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.
Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing. I probably did more than 100 field segments.
I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.