You don’t need to be perfect

A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant.""We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

Our attention to each breath keeps us in the now.