I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

Working with people feels uncertain, and that's why it takes courage to engage. You can follow all the rules, have good intentions, and still get burned.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don't know that. They always smile

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.