Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.

I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.