I’m still very much a Christian and have a great relationship with God. I love Him, but one of my flaws is that I cuss.
There’s no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.
When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here.
Men don’t come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We’re looking across the room at you, and we don’t care about your hopes and dreams. We don’t care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.
Act like a lady, think like a man.
People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.
The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that’s what I do.
The truth is I’ve always been a Christian. What’s amazing, is that the flaws that come with Christianity are really weird, because mine have a microphone and a camera attached to them. Most people don’t have to live under that microscope.
Every day, President Obama sends a beautiful message about how we should treat our women based on how he treats his wife. When people went after his wife during the campaign, he took a stand.
Do what you say you’re going to do! People can do nothing but respect that.
My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
If he hasn’t lined up the who he is, the what he does, and the how much he makes in the way that he sees fit, he can’t possibly be to you what he wants to be.
I can’t cuss and tell jokes the rest of my life. I gotta say something meaningful. I gotta give something back to a Creator who has given so much to me.
I know how men think when they’re not responding to questions in a clinical study.
I’m just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don’t you think you got to be perfect ’cause I ain’t.
Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.
I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.
But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.
What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of.
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, ‘Ma’am, I’m going to marry you one day.’ And 15 years later, I did.