You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

The world needs less destruction.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.