It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

Al Yankovic

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Giovani della Casa

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal withpeople, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you neednothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away fromyourself.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Ellie Kemper

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Epictetus

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Rosie Perez

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

Cordwainer Smith

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Dave Chappelle

It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.

Peter Mere Latham

I thought I was funny as a kid.

Jo Brand