"The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large."

“Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.”

“Passion means suffering and compassion means suffering together. Suffering produces perseverance and perseverance produces character and character produces hope. And that lifts people up, knowing they're not alone.”

“Cuz if I don’t say I’m the best, tell me who the hell will?”

“A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]”

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (1858). “The Blithedale romance: By Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.39

“I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.”

“Stay true to who you are. Don't let anyone else define you”

“When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.”