You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.

Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.