If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.

Once our souls collided and caught fire, there was no turning back. Love is a collision of two stars -- it's as simple and as complicated as that.

You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.