If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

There is sexism - I'm not denying its existence. But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.

Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

Patriotism is a kind of religion

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

If you have health, you have everything.

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.