Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either, ” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.