"Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing."

"No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12."

"I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years."

"Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low."

"Wisdom principle 29 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 89."

"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."

"I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate."

"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."