What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.

I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.