My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

You should impact the greatest amount of people that you can in your life.

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.