Zitat des Tages von Bill Cosby:
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Old is always fifteen years from now.
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.
Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.
Reunited with strawberry, raspberry and blueberry, I am berry, berry happy to be back working with JELL-O.
The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.
If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.
Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'
We're not raising children with the love that we need to.
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.
I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.
I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.