Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

What do you have (talents, idea, contacts, a voice, strength)? God uses what you have to give you what you don't have.

I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.