I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning four years were spent refining and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama learning the literature on evolution what was known about it biologically just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular scientific view of the world.