It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Follow your dreams and work hard. There's no replacement for hard work, and that's true for any field. If you work hard at it, you're going to see the fruits of your labor, I guarantee it.

My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good.

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

Y'ALL ARE JUST BITTER.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

Family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.