The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

When the comedy community turned on me, I had a lot of reflecting to do.

The fact that so many comics were waiting to jump on the bandwagon of hate toward me - what is it about me that engages this kind of behavior? I began to see it: My cockiness, my lack of hanging out with other comics. A lot of that wasn't my fault.

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it.

Here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends, who don't judge you, what do you say? And if that's appropriate to say with your friends, why is it not appropriate anywhere else. Like, I hate those people who judge me and are hypocrites.

I'm a spiritual person: I believe that if you read the Bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love, and what makes us godly.

You know what, I stopped doing 'Mind of Mencia' because it got hard, and there was a lot of fighting, and it was just time to move on.

The United States of America on our worst day is better than any other country on their best day. Period. End of story.