Amy Poehler

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open windows.

[a metaphor for the end of her marriage] The process of divorce is about loading a blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

[at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards] Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu and I hear she’s amazing in it.

[on Tina Fey] I like to say our relationship is as old as Lourdes Ciccone

I really do believe that anything in life – any obstacle or challenge – can be made better with humor.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.