We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Start every day by making a list of all the experiences you will fill your day with and make an effort.

Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

I could have a lot of fun with Michael Jackson, I'm sure.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.