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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?