Ellen DeGeneres

It would be horrible to live with someone who didn’t like the same things you like.

Ellen DeGeneres

It’s hard to understand failure when you’re going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it’s good to fall down – not because you’re drunk and not near stairs.

Ellen DeGeneres

It’s nice when people love you… for you.

Ellen DeGeneres

It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Ellen DeGeneres

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what’s important and what’s not important. Little things don’t usually get to me anymore.

Ellen DeGeneres

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

Ellen DeGeneres

My life is perfect even when it’s not.

Ellen DeGeneres

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

Ellen DeGeneres

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen DeGeneres

Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I’d like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.

Ellen DeGeneres