And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

It was probably my mother's screaming that frightened the cat. It's just a guess. No one knows for sure why a cat fell from a ten-storey building onto my head.

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point, it was a very tarnished name.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.