If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is.

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.