When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

We were just looking at maps...

Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.

Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

A permanent path That, once illuminated, Goes ever onward - a way home.

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.