I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit.

The news is glorified gossip.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

I'm not against anybody having gone [to Donald Trump's inauguration], but, for me, it was not the right place to be.

Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.

To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.