The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with 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.

I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

If you do something and people think you're stupid, just go for crazy. You get more respect that way because nobody likes stupid people.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

One of the biggest problems with having a dream come true is recognizing it when it arrives.

Chess is a matter of daily training.