He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.
There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.
You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.
If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.
The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.
When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them. " "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them. " It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.