I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

If we get out there trying to be inspirational, then we probably won't be.

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

In Poland, I've met inspirational soldiers - not simply supporting and leading Nato missions in Eastern Europe but underpinning our security at home.

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It's empowering, and it's inspirational as well, because you're just like, 'This is great!'

In fact, Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader.

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.