The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart, I can erase it never.

The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.

The Swartzentruber Order is the most conservative on the Amish spectrum. Amish people have differences just like any culture.

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.

The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.