"It's odd. Fifty percent of me feels it's the right time to be closing this. The other 50 percent of me is saying it's more than a show. It's a group of people that love each other. It's a group of people that come together every day trying to make America laugh, and what better thing is there to do than that?"

"It's been more than a show. It's been a wonderful support group. It's a group of people that love each other, that come together every day to try to make America laugh. What better thing is there to do than that?"

"In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way."

"I've been in the public eye for nine years, and I've gone through different phases with it. At first I loved it. Finally, there's a light shining on me and I've wanted that all this time. Then there were a couple of years where I almost became reclusive because it bothered me so much. The trick is to be able to look at it as something that's ethereal and not real. Fame, or whatever that is, isn't tangible. You can't hang your hat on it. You must be able to sit under your covers and giggle about the nonsense of all of it."

"Even as a child, I had that sort of defense mechanism. If something was awkward, I would try to lighten it up by making people laugh. But like Chandler, I've grown up a little bit in the last eight years and become a lot more comfortable with my serious side. I feel the need to fill the silences a lot less with jokes."

"Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts."

"Shoot me up with a big one."

"He doesn't have to be the funniest guy in the room. Now, he's a guy who is much more secure. He's not afraid to look in the mirror anymore. Underneath all the (stuff) that used to get in his way was a heart of gold. He's really a super-compassionate human being. He's so smart. He's always got good advice. I've gotten free therapy from him for years. He's very intuitive."

"Matthew is a complete pro. Everyday that we were shooting, we were getting great material."

"Even when he was going through some painful times of his own, he was always incredibly funny and cheerful and always making me laugh."

"Who dreads to the dust returning? Who shrinks from the sable shore, Where the high and haughty yearning Of the soul can sting no more?"

"We meet neath the sounding rafter, And the walls around are bare; As they shout back our peals of laughter It seems that the dead are there. Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'T is all we have left to prize. A cup to the dead already,— Hurrah for the next that dies!"

"Training, as practiced in much of corporate America, is an astonishing waste of resources."

"Sometimes it's just not practical to go through the effort of creating a new solution when an existing solution will do the job almost as well."

"Often the true causes of our discomfort are so integral to our environment that we fail to recognize them."

"As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them."

"We think the more detailed and exhaustive our plans, the more likely the future will actually mirror our vision. But it rarely even comes close."

"In the heat of the moment, it can be all too easy to generate solutions that take on a life of their own, without reference to the core values of the people developing them or those expected to implement them."

"Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so."

"Preliminary ideas are often weak and impure, and need to be driven through a forge in order to become powerful, workable solutions."

"Even though you may have started out saying you wanted imaginative, novel ideas, the tendency to drift back into the conventional is powerful."

"If you let it, your mind will celebrate new stimuli by automatically making dozens of unexpected connections for you. If you pay attention to them, you may discover the answer you've been looking for."

"The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken."

"When you try to generate ideas, think of yourself as a sales person knocking on a whole subdivision of doors. Some won't open at all, some will open a suspicious crack, and some will slam in your face. But the more doors you knock on, the greater your chances of being invited in."

"In my experience one of the most common causes for programs, products, and change initiatives that don't work is that the wrong question has been asked."

"As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to that intention. Ideas and opportunities seem to appear from nowhere, almost as though by magic."

"Giving ourselves permission to imagine allows us to access a huge resource of cognitive capacity that we often ignore."

"Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravitational pull of the past."

"No matter how dysfunctional the present, no matter how sensible the reasons for change, most people and organizations would rather wring out the old than ring in the new."

"But as important as it is to see what's going on, it's unlikely that merely understanding the situation will do much to improve it. If you're interested in change, you need to develop a sense of possibility."

"If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place."

"One of the major barriers to productive thinking is the almost compulsive drive in most business organizations to be right."

"We tend to overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term."

"I have the heart and what its got to be champion and I did it, I proved it tonight again."

"Hasta la vista, baby. I can't take this abuse anymore. I'm coming back - as a spectator. I'm retired."

"Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. ."

"I have known for a long time now that Lennox is the best heavyweight since Ali and the world should now acknowledge that."

"Lennox is right up there with George Foreman and Muhammad Ali and he has proved himself the best heavyweight out there."

"Lennox is beyond doubt the greatest heavyweight of all-time. He is not second any more, he is there at the top of the tree. It reminded me of a young George Foreman and an elusive Muhammad Ali - everything you want in a fighter."

"In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there."

"Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency."

"The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside."

"Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers."

"I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be."

"I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me."

"If I could fight anyone it would be Jack Johnson - he was so ahead of his time. I would like to have the opportunity to fight Tyson too and I'm sure it will arise if he can face me. I would not like to have fought Muhammed Ali as I have too much respect for him on a personal and professional level. Larry Holmes, Ali's ex-sparring partner, fought Muhammed Ali and hated himself after giving him an unnecessary beating after winning. The only reason he won was because of Ali's ageing boxing skills."

"Islam was not always so close minded. During the 'Golden age' – between the 9th and 11th century – there existed a tradition of critical thinking in the Muslim world.<!--"

"Two other women, authors Irshad Manji (The Trouble with Islam Today) and Asra Nomani (Standing Alone in Mecca), have thrown a more robust challenge to the Islamic establishment, but instead of being debated on the merits of their case, the two were unfairly dismissed as attention-seeking apologists for the West."

"Our global responsibility now is not to determine who owns what identity, but to convey to future generations what we all owe each other."

"I've read the scholarship that explains these verses 'in their context', and I think there's a fancy dance of evasion going on."