Be creative enough to dream, brave enough to try, persistent enough to succeed, and humble enough to thank those who helped you along the way.

The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.

If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, "What's stopping you?

Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.

I learn everyday what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.

The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.