I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

Good music makes a happy life.

Love yourself first in order to endlessly love others.

If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.