There's something nice and safe about having money.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.