For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

It's wild to be seen differently and have more visibility, but it's rewarding.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's a lot of responsibility to carry a show and to speak to people on different levels.

I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

A man had better study what a human being is, because he's marrying one - assuming that merely being one has not been sufficient stimulus to that study.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.