It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

E. W. Howe

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

Samuel Johnson

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Joseph Roux

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

William Hazlitt

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

Kevin James

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Judd Nelson

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

Giuliana Rancic

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Missy Elliot