Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you…people who are beautiful inside and out…those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

Loving yourself means making choices that allow you to care for the important person that you are.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.

Love comes in at the eye.