When you go into something where you can really trust that everyone has thought about it, more than you have even, then that's like a gift.

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.

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.