I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.

As a heterosexual ballet dancer, you develop a thick skin.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.

Power is what Satan offers us, whereas God keeps pointing out that we serve el best in our weakness, so that we can acknowledge that it is the Creator choosing to work through us, his fragile creatures. It is God who has made us, and not we ourselves. But because we enjoy feeling powerful, we accept Satan's offers.