When it’s time to pull and tuck, I’m sure I will consider it.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites. . . & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.
People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.