I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

Got to take a gamble. The only way to find out is to find out.

I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

If I take you to my past you will be traumatized.

I owe a lot to Darren Perry. I don’t think I’d be this far this early if it wasn’t for him pushing me to run an extra second or showing me a play on film and telling me when I see it, that’s the green light to go do it and don’t be afraid to take that next step and take chances. That’s what the game is about.

Good things take time.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment

I never go perform somewhere alone. I’ve done that since day one. I’ve always taken other comics with me.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.

I can take them off, but they’re pretty strong

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

You can take on the world in a good suit.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the real Marines.

The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: “Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready.

A woman’s choice generally means taking the only man she can get.

Rise up, fallen fighters. Rise and take your stance again

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through … such is the basic method of leadership.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

You have to take risks to achieve great things.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house. That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take – and sometimes tea

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee, they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense

You can’t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.