Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

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?

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.

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.