Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

The only thing limiting you is yourself.

To dream of love & wake up beside your lover is divinity itself

Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

If we want a miracle, we’ve got to surrender all our faith.

There is at least one truth to every myth.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.