"I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point."

“I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.”

“The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.”

“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.

“In the early days I was on the road 45-50 weeks a year, driving from gig to gig 6-8 weeks in a row. Not everyone can do that. The show becomes the easy part. Tt's the life on the road that is the hardest... and you can't get any good at standup unless you do the road.”

“No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world - only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within.”

“The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”

“To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.”

Source : Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.”