I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.