Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.