"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that the spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."

"It is a steadfast truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty."

"The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique."

"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."

"Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life."