Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.

Priorities are simple to establish

What we are today doesn't show what we were yesterday. After all, the only thing unchangeable about this world is the constant change

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.