What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

Twitter is a global town square.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life... be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.

Oh, devil, devil!If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.Out of my sight!

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Evil draws men together.

When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.