If you can’t remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you’re overdue.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.