For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.