Quotes from Bill Cosby

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

There are certain times of the day when you need a balance - that is, your protein and your carbs. I'm a Barry Sears man. I believe that anything green is a carb, and I need 2:1. Two of the carbs to one of the protein.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves.

Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

Sometimes I buy my wife flowers.

I've said all along I've never competed with 'The Simpsons.' Not in my own mind.

You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.