Stephen Colbert

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.