I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.

You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!

Performing my show is something I constantly think about.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

You just have to belong. Long to be.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.