I've become a much more serious young insect.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

It's always cool on the airplane when people are watching “SVU.” It’s funny. And it’s always the reruns.

If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.