Richard Pryor

"I think that everyone deserves a chance to be happy."

"I'm here to tell the truth and make people laugh while doing it."

"I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! I can relax now."

"You know the difference between my mistakes and yours? Mine got bigger, and I had more fun making them."

"Comedians are observers. We're not really trapped in the body; we're trapped in our observations of it."

"When you're dying, you don't worry about how you look or what anyone thinks. You just want more time."

"The thing about being a star is you get to be what you want to be. But it's also the thing that destroys you."

"I think about my life. My real life. Not the one people know about."

"Fear is the lock and laughter is the key. Sometimes you gotta laugh at the fear."

"A man has to know his limitations. And his possibilities too."

"I used to worry about what people thought of me. Now I realize most people are too busy worrying about themselves."

"The struggle itself becomes the reward when you're doing what you love."

"You have to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"Dreams are like riches; you gotta dig for them. But sometimes you gotta know where to dig."

"The stage is the only place where I feel truly free and completely trapped at the same time."

"Getting rich ain't about the money. It's about having choices."

"I ain't got no education, but I got a lot of experience."

"Patience ain't something you got; it's something you build, every single day."

"Music is the language the soul speaks when words ain't enough."

"Beauty is wasted on people who don't appreciate the struggle it took to create it."

"You can't inspire anybody if you ain't lived a little yourself."

"The real power ain't in what you have; it's in what you're willing to lose."

"Hope is a thing you plant and water. If you neglect it, it dies like everything else."

"Kindness is free, but it's the most valuable currency there is."

"I learned more from my failures than from any success I ever had."

"The human body is like a car. You gotta maintain it or it breaks down."

"Adventure ain't about going somewhere new; it's about seeing with new eyes."

"Imagination is the only weapon we got against the world telling us what we can't be."

"Good leadership means getting out of people's way while giving them direction."