If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.