The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

There's good random, and there's bad random. There's good silly and there's bad silly, and you've gotta know the difference.

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.